Aubergines

Hello! Long time huh! I haven't been posting much lately as my veggies seem to have died a death :( My green bean plants have been nibbled to nothing altho I noticed some are flowering a bit again! My tomato plant has deliciously ripe tomatoes appearing now!

My aubergine plants (I have 3).... are flowering!!! Such beautiful purple flowers... I'm parying for it to sprout! Do I just let nature take its course? I have been feeding it once a week so hopefully it grows!

 

Hey SB,

Was just about to start a thread to see if you were snowed in yet.

My beans are only just hanging on now, they don't like the shortening days.

Remind me, are your Aubergines in pots, if so you need to get them onto a sunny window sill before the frost comes. Keep on parying for it to set fruit.:gnthb:

Good about the tomatoes, you probably read that i'm loosing mine to the blight.:cry:

I saw yesterday that its just taking out my august sown potato plants too, bang goes the new potatoes for xmas dinner.

All is not lost though, the blight has not reached the west bay plot & divided the seed spuds between the 2 plots, so keep em crossed.

 

My aubergines are 3 plants in a bricked veggie patch outdoors, but in the sunlight. It's still (unusally) quite warm here just now. So hopefully the frost keeps away for a bit yet!

I did see about your toms, I must google blight as I wonder if that is what is happening to some of mine...

 

Nope mine don't have blight. Some of the toms look like they split open slightly then get mouldy. Not many of them though, only 2 so far. Hopefully no more. I'm checking the plant daily and harvesting them as soon as they are red enough.

 

Hi Snowbaby.
If your aubergine plants are just flowering now then I hate to be so pessimistic, but I think there is no chance of fruit.
Aubergines like it hot, and won't set fruit unless the temperature overnight is consistently over 15 degrees.
In Scotland (and elsewhere) I think that is unlikely.
I struggled with them for years and eventually got 2 big aubergines from a plant growing in the conservatory.
Not worth the work or space.
I won't be growing them again - but the purple flowers are nice.

 

To take them indoors, I would have to re-pot one.... would it survive repotting? My house is warm and the sun comes in the back window most of the day so it would be happy there!

 

Try to take it out with as much soil as possible,maybe give it a good watering a bit beforehand. Hopefully it wont notice its been moved then, till it feels the warmth of the house.

 

Will need to find a pot, but I think I'll try that. The courgettes are dying off now cos something (slug I think due to the slime!) keeps eating the flowers off the courgettes before the grow too big. Grrr!

Thanks Ziggy

 

My Corgettes have had enough now too, one is hanging on & growing a marrow thats turning yellow.

We now have to turn our thoughts to window sill gardening, seed sprouts & my other thought.

 

http://www.self-sufficient.co.uk/Make-Your-Own-DIY-Polytunnel.htm

My other thought:dh:

 

thanks, will definately try it. There's 3 plants which are very close together indeed, 1 of which are flowering, the 3rd is much smaller.

 

Go for it Snowbaby :yho: You've got nothing to loose other than an eggplant.:flag::D

 

Ive just logged in to find out about over wintering aubergines!